Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Excerpta ex variis libris de literis etruscis et runicis:

Authors

• Silva, Donato, conte
• Fontanini, Giusto, 1666-1736
• Dempster, Thomas, 1579?-1625
• Bél, Mátyás, 1684-1749
• Hepburn, J. B. 1573-1620
• Worm, Ole, 1588-1654
• Pontoppidan, Erich, 1698-1764
• Rudbeck, Olof, 1630-1702
• Keder, Nils, 1659-1735

Call number

Ms. Coll. 704
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943519133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234178685
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gt5fw0j

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Etruscan, Old Danish runes, Hebrew, and Egyptian

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Summary

A collection of materials from various authors on ancient alphabets and languages, focusing predominately on Etruscan. Includes tables of a large variety of alphabets, both ancient and mystical. Also includes a letter written by Silva to an unnamed correspondent in Sweden. Contains some drawings of coins and sarcophagi. The majority of excerpts come from works by Thomas Dempster and Mátyás Bél. Many of the now-loose items had been both laid in and formerly sewn in, and are now unfolded and shelved together with the booklet.

Extent

14 items, 1 booklet (35 leaves)

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1965.
   
• Ownership stamp: Comes Donatus Silva (f. 1v in booklet).
   

Subjects topical

• Etruscan language
• Runes
• Runes
• Alphabets--Early works to 1800
• Alphabets
• Etruscan language--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Excerpts
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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